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Gondvanoptilon brasiliense

Insecta - Permaeschnidae

Taxonomy
Gondvanoptilon brasiliense was named by Rösler et al. (1981). Its type specimen is GP/1T505, a wing (nearly complete wing), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Pedreira da Mineração, Amaral Machado, which is in a Kungurian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Irati Formation of Brazil. It is the type species of Gondvanoptilon.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1981Gondvanoptilon brasiliense Rösler et al. pp. 221-232 fig. 2
1996Gondvanoptilon brasiliense Martins-Neto p. 43 figs. 1a,b, 2
2002Gondvanoptilon brasiliense Huguet et al. p. 545

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
—Euhydropalaeoptera
RankNameAuthor
—OdonatopteraMartynov 1932
—Palaeodonatoptera
—Plesiodonatoptera
—Apodonatoptera
—Paneodonatoptera
—Neodonatoptera
—Euodonatoptera
—OdonatocladaBechly 1999
—Nodialata
suborderProtanisoptera
—DitaxineuromorphaPritykina 1980
familyPermaeschnidae
genusGondvanoptilonRösler et al. 1981
speciesbrasilienseRösler et al. 1981

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Gondvanoptilon brasiliense Rösler et al. 1981
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available